Quotes About Contentment

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention.

The happy man's without a shirt.

Happy man, happy dole.

Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.

I am a happy man. I've had a good life.

In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!

This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.

Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.

To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy.

Oh, one world at a time!

I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

But my friends are happy for me. The people who know me are happy. My mom is happy. My family is happy.

My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

I'm all right, not as good as my mom is. Maybe because I don't have kids.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.

It's much easier not to know things sometimes. And to have french fries with your mom be enough.

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.